1. Effective Reading Habits 2018 New Student Orientation
Presenter: Roswitha M. Shelton
Coordinator, Learning Center
Virginia Union University

2. Effective Reading Habits
Improve your reading skills.
Help you write about the Reflection Question on page 55 in the workbook.
Help you with your Common Read: The Coming by Daniel Black.
Help you with your reading and writing assignments in your fall semester courses.
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3. Academic support services
The Learning Center
Academic support services
Including tutoring services
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4. Reflection Question: Life is so much about reading, understanding what you have read, and determining the implications (meaning) of the content. Therefore, effective reading habits are not only essential for academic success, it is truly a life skill.
Student Orientation Workbook, page 55
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5. How often do you read?

6. Effective Reading Habits
Make reading a part of your daily schedule:
A good place to read.
Set daily or weekly goals to read.
Read for 30 minutes or an hour each day.
Read several pages of the assignment each day.
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7. What are your preferred information sources?
Books?
Textbooks?
Internet?

8. What strategies do you use to help you understand what you read?

9. Effective Reading Habits
A common strategy for reading:
SQ3R
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10. Effective Reading Strategies
Survey or skim the reading
Questions about the reading
Read for content
Recall
Review
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11. Reading Strategies: SQ3R
S = Survey or skim the reading to gain a general impression about the reading.
Introduction & conclusion
Topic sentences of paragraphs
Headings, sub- sections
Visuals: pictures, diagrams, charts, and so on
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12. Reading Strategies: SQ3R
What is the title of the reading? Author?
What do you already know about the topic?
Can you relate to the topic?
How does the assigned reading relate to the assignment prompt?
Q = Ask questions about the reading before you read it closely to make reading an active pursuit.
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13. Reading Strategies: SQ3R
1R = Read for content:
read slowly, carefully
take notes
Background
What type of reading?
When was it written?
Close reading
Main idea, key points, examples
Evidence used
Dictionary: Unfamiliar words
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14. Reading Strategies: SQ3R
2 R = Recall: From time to time, stop reading: think about what you have read and written down, so you will not forget the important points.
Recall the key points
Things that surprised or shocked you
Things you found interesting
Things that confused you
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15. Reading Strategies: SQ3R
3 R = Review the reading and/or your notes again to make sure you have understood everything correctly.
Did you understand the main ideas?
Are there gaps?
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16. What is the difference between memorizing and reading comprehension?

17. Final words …
Good reading habits are not only important for academic success.
Good reading habits are a life skill.
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